Re: IPv6 and CDN's

[David Conrad <drc () virtualized org>]

Bryan,

On Oct 23, 2021, at 5:56 PM, Bryan Fields <Bryan () bryanfields net> wrote:
> > Excepting temporary failures, they are as far as I am aware. Why do you
> > think they aren’t?
>
> I can't reach C, 2001:500:2::c, from many places in v6 land.  My home and

> secondary data center can't reach it, but my backup VM's at another data
> center can.

Ah. Cogent. I suspect IPv6 peering policies. Somebody should bake a cake.

> > However, the IANA team is not the enforcement arm of the Internet. If a
> > root server operator chooses to not abide by RFC 7720, there is nothing the
> > IANA team can do unilaterally other than make the root server operator
> > aware of the fact.
>
> Surely IANA has the power to compel a root server operator to abide by policy
> or they lose the right to be a root server?

To compel? No. Not in the slightest. That is not how the root server system works. This is a (very) common 
misconception.

There has been some effort to create a governance model for the root server system (see 
https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/rssac-037-15jun18-en.pdf) but I believe it has gotten bogged down in the 
question of “what do you do when a root server operator isn’t doing the job ‘right’ (whatever that means and after 
figuring out who decides) but doesn’t want to give up being a root server operator?”.  It’s a hard question, but it 
isn’t the folks at IANA who answer it.

Regards,
-drc

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